Integrated Studies of Social and Natural Environmental Transition in Laos

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Yokoyama, Satoshi (Editor), Okamoto, Kohei (Editor), Takenaka, Chisato (Editor), Hirota, Isao (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research,
• Subjects: Geography.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Environmental management.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Environmental Management.

This book examines social and natural environmental changes in present-day Laos and presents a new research framework for environmental studies from an interdisciplinary point of view. In Laos, after the Lao version of perestroika, Chintanakaan Mai, in 1986, for better or worse, rural development an...